Extras

The Battle

After three different concert programs between 2007 and 2010 celebrating the
30th anniversary of the group, Flairck returns in 2011 with a new conceptual
representation called THE BATTLE.

The group performs a dramatic battle which is fought simultaneously between
two lovers and two armies, reflecting the universal themes of `love and strife´.

THE BATTLE takes place over a twenty-four hour' offensive', every few minutes
of the show representing one hour of this day, which is governed by a sundial.

We see the preparations prior to the battle, the nightly escapades, the first
look over the battlefield at dawn, fear and hope, the first skirmishes, the
actual battle and a strange truce (the intermission). Then the course and end
of the fight and finally the nightly ceremony of burning floats.

Almost fifty, often strange musical instruments operate as an instrumental
artillery amid shadowy fragments of text and projections across the misty
battlefield. Five multi-instrumentalists, aided by visual techniques,
participate in THE BATTLE.